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Multi-media artist Roberto Visani to give talk Feb. 9 as part of Wednesday Artists’ Speaker Series

The Weekly Wednesday Artists' Speaker Series at Alfred University continues on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. in Holmes Theater, Harder Hall, with a lecture by Roberto Visani, a Brooklyn, NY-based multi-media artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad.


ALFRED, NY— The Weekly Wednesday Artists' Speaker Series at Alfred University continues on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. in Holmes Theater, Harder Hall, with a lecture by Roberto Visani, a Brooklyn, NY-based multi-media artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad.

In the Weekly Wednesday Artists' Speaker Series guest artists present short talks on their creative practice outside of the classroom. During the Fall 2021 semester, faculty and staff in the School of Art and Design/Performing Arts Division, gave the weekly presentations. The series aims to engage the Alfred community by creating a unique sharing space focusing on the arts.

In his lecture, Visani will discuss the relationship his art practice has to history from a both a personal and social perspective as well as the interconnectedness of content to his creative process and pedagogy.

Primarily working in sculpture, Visani’s artwork examines the black body, often through the reinterpretation of historical artworks and artifacts. He has exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; The Bronx Museum, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and Barbican Galleries, London. He has been awarded residencies from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Chelsea College of Art, Abrons Art Center, and Art Omi.

Visani is a NYFA Fellow in Sculpture and was a Fulbright Fellow to Ghana. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Art Forum, Art News, Hyperallergic and Frieze, among others. Since 2004 he has taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he is an associate professor of art. In spring 2022, Visani will have a solo exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont titled “Form/Reform,” opening in March of 2022, and a community-based workshop and exhibition at the Speed Museum of Art in Louisville, KY, in September 2022.